Portal:Current events/2024 September 17

September 17, 2024 (2024-09-17) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
    • At least nine people are killed and about 2,500 others are injured, including Hezbollah members and the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when their pagers explode across Lebanon, including in Beirut. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (Al Arabiya)
  • Three Hezbollah militants are killed and two others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Blida in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Ituri conflict
  • CODECO militants kill ten civilians in an overnight attack on a Hema village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some of the victims were beheaded, according to local authorities. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that a majority of the Gazan public does not support Hamas's decision to launch the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, for the first time during the conflict. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Central European floods
    • Four people are found dead after floods in Austria, while another is killed in Poland, bringing the death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe to 21. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar increases to 236 people, with over 77 people still missing. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Portugal wildfires
  • Three Portuguese firefighters die in one of dozens of wildfires ravaging the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest wildfires to seven people. (Reuters)
• At least 25 children are killed when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating the birth of prophet Muhammad crashes in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (Al Arabiya)
• Six people are killed during a landslide caused by heavy rains in Naucalpan, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Afghanistan
  • The Taliban government reopens the Afghan embassy in Muscat, Oman. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the Bangladesh quota reform movement. (Dhaka Tribune)
• LGBT rights in Georgia
  • The Parliament of Georgia approves a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would restrict LGBTQ+ rights in the country. (DW)
• Pélicot serial rape case
  • Dominique Pélicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to rape her for over ten years, has admitted to all the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on 2 September. (BBC)

Science and technology

• Meta Platforms bans Russian state media from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, citing alleged deceptive tactics used by the networks to carry out "influence operations" while evading detection. (CBC)

Sports

• 2026 Commonwealth Games
  • Glasgow, Scotland, is formally selected as the host city of the Commonwealth Games in 2026. (BBC News)

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